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you should encourage your six year old to do it so that you do not end up sounding like any number of tedious middle class wankers who wander through a contemporary art gallery looking at this or that piece muttering
"what's the big deal? i could have done that..."
but of course, you didnt..and it would never have crossed your mind..
and chances are quite good that even if it did cross your mind, you still couldnt do it simply because making stuff is not as easy as you think. but you wouldnt get that far, so you'd never know.
"harumph, what crap--my 6 year old could do it."
so put up.
let's see what your 6 year old can do.
it's a no loose situation.
at no point would this be about your six-year old's skills--except perhaps via positive response (and if you do this, the tone will not be this tone)---
it's about YOUR claim that this music you neither like nor understand is SO EASY that a six year old could make it.
curious possibility: if it turns out that your 6 year old is a young prodigy at this sort of work, it'd be pretty funny to think that you'd never have known had you allowed your own musical views to determine what she explored, wouldnt it?
note on the productions:
you should understand that the dj premier beats (jeru, group home, gang starr) were made using turntables and computer in tandem. i imagine that you think that turntables are easy too. if you imagine that, then it is self-evident you haven't tried to work with them in this kind of way.
the mobb deep track sounds more like it was done using fairly basic pitch shifting and a fairly restricted base of materials--but the beats match the lyrics perfectly, regardless of whether those lyrics fit with your "up with people" aesthetic.
at the very least, you'll find out that this stuff is harder to make than you imagine, regardless of whether you like it.
btw: i didnt make these beats. you DO understand that, dont you?
i find it amusing from time to time to trawl about youtube and see whats there.
sometimes, to provide myself a pretext to do it, i make these threads.
the threads cover a pretty wide range of sound. look at the others and see for yourself.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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